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It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow. The cathedral, which was designed in 1814 by James Gillespie Graham in the Neo-Gothic style, lies on the north bank of the River Clyde in Clyde Street. St Andrew's Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Glasgow, currently William Nolan.
Translated from Good Shepherd, St John's Street Dundee Cathedral Cathedral Church of St Andrew: Diocese of Dunkeld: 1782 Edinburgh Cathedral Cathedral and Metropolitan Church of St Mary: Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh: 1814
The Cathedral of St Andrew (often referred to as St Andrews Cathedral) is a ruined cathedral in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.It was built in 1158 and became the centre of the Medieval Catholic Church in Scotland as the seat of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and the Bishops and Archbishops of St Andrews.
Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral between 1988 and 1997 uncovered architectural fragments of this first stone cathedral beneath the floor of the present cathedral. The west front of the 1136 cathedral lay at the third pier of the existing nave and its east end included the area of St Mungo's tomb.
St Andrew's-by-the-Green; St Anne's Church, Glasgow; St Columba's Catholic Church, Glasgow; St Enoch subway station; St George's Tron Church; St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow; St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow; Saracen Fountain; Scotland Street School Museum; South Portland Street Suspension Bridge; Southern Necropolis; Springburn Winter Gardens ...
The church, inspired by St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, [2] was built between 1739 and 1756 by Master Mason Mungo Naismith, and designed by Allan Dreghorn. [3] While construction of it was started before the nearby St Andrew's-by-the-Green, it was completed after, making it either the third or fourth oldest church in Glasgow, depending on criterion.
The Diocese of Galloway (Latin: Dioecesis Candidae Casae o Gallovidianus) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Scotland.The pre-Reformation Diocese of Galloway, founded by Ninian in the fifth century, had broken allegiance with Rome in 1560, and disappeared in 1689 in the (official) Church of Scotland but continued in the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
The arrival of the Irish necessitated Rev Andrew Scott, the sole Priest in Glasgow to begin the erection of the Catholic Cathedral in Clyde St in 1814 'for his vast Irish flock'. [ 3 ] Before 1795 the majority of the Catholics in Glasgow were from the Highlands.